Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-10
THE WITCHES WE.
A Cruel Prejudice Of Old Times More Tan
Equalled Now.


A Cruel Prejudice Of Old Times More Tan
Equalled Now.
Not many decades ago in this country
the people were excited over witchcratt
Persons suspected were thrown into the
water; if not witches, they would drown;
# they we're witches, they woulG swim
ashore, and would be put to death! In any
event, they were doomed!
Not many years ago if a person We're
taken sick with advanced disorder of the
kidneys, the physician would pronounce
the disease Bright's disease, and when so
declared, he regarded his responsibility
at an end, for medical authority admitted
that the disease was incurable.
When the physician found patient
thus afflicted, he would say, "Oh, a slight
attack of the Kidneys will be all right in
little while.n He knew 10 the contrary.
But if he could keep the patient on his
hands for few months, he kneS he couls
derive a great revenue from his case, ana
then when the disease had progressed to
a certain stage, be would state the facts
and retire, exhonerated from Gil blame.
But the error OF suppOslng the disease
incurable, has swayed the public mind,
long after the fact has ceased to be. But
public opinion has been educated to the
true status Of the case by those who have
discounted the lncurability theory, and
the public recognizes and testi1es to the
fact that Warmers safe cure is a specific
FOR this disease. This has been shown
with thousands OF testimonials.
Upon referring to them in our files we
find that $4,000 reward will be given to
any one who can prove that so far as the
manufacturers know they are not genu-
inc, and that hundreds of thousands sim
liar in character could be published, if it
we're necessary.
The condition Of things is very anus
ing to the journalist who looks upon all
sides of every question. Proof should
be accepted by all, but prejudice fights
proof for many years. 1t seems strange
that when proprietary medicine is do
ing the good that Warmers safe cure is
that the physicians do not publicly en-
dorse it. Many of them, we are told,
privately prescribe it.
A few years ago, as stated, when a man
had Bright's disease, the doctor boldly
announced it, because he thought it re-
lieved him of responsibility.
To-day when prominent people are
dying land hundreds of thousands of
common people die of the same diseased,
we are told that doctors disguise the fact
that it is Bright's disease of the kidney $
and say that they die of paralysis, of APP
oplexy, of pneumonia, of consumption,
of general debility, of rheumatism, ct
heart disease, of blood poisoning, or some
other of the names of the direct effects
of kidney disease. They are not the roal
disease itself.
We sometimes wonder if they avoid
stating the real cause of disease for feHr
they will drive the public into patronage
of the only scientific proprietary specific
for kidney diseases and the thousand auC
one diseases that originate in inacti1e
kidneys.
We do not believe every advertisement
we read. Some people perhaps may n.
gard this article as an advertisement n. d
will not believe it, but we are candid
enough to say that we believe the parties
above mentioned have stated thoir case
and proved it, and under such circun
stances the public is unwise if it is long
er influenced by adverse prejudice.